4th Anniversary DIPA
Austin Street Brewery

[IMG] Poured into a 12 oz Snulip canned really recent, no date on the bottom. Pours a hazy orange with a finger sticky white head, that leaves spotty lace. 4.25

Smell is peach, mango, melon, strawberry, apricot, and grapefruit. 4

Taste follows mango, peach, cantaloupe, strawberry, and some apricot and grapefruit in the lingering finish. 4

Mouthfeel is about medium, a tad more carbonated than most NEDIPAs, sticky not dry, and at 8% very easy going down. 4

Overall nice beer, missing a wow factor for me, but still very nice stuff. 4

 

 

 

Pours a radiant, very cloudy gold color with a 1 finger off-white fizzy head that settles very quickly. This is a beautiful looking color, have to say.

The aroma is moderately strong with floral citrus notes, maybe on the sweet side of citrus. Very nice.

The taste is lightly sweet with strong orange notes. A little tartness adds some grapefruit peel too. Malt is low, imparting the sweetness but getting out of the way. The finish leaves an orange blossom taste lingering around. Cool.

There is a lot of seltzer to this beer which gives it a sort of orange-ade feel. Bitterness is low, mouthfeel is very soft. Not a hint of alcohol burn for it being 9%. This one could get you in some serious trouble if you weren't careful because it goes down so damn easy.

This is a wow beer, perhaps one of the finest NEIPAs I've had (out of the many). It is so mellow and smooth and delicate with floral orange notes. The seltzer could be a small turn off to some but the flavor is so worth it. Damn I wish I had gotten another 4-pack (or more)! If Austin Street made a clone of this available all year round it would have a following like Tree House's Orange Julius. Guaranteed.